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Ideal Measurement of Cardiac Output: Is Impedance Cardiography the Answer?
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Ideal Measurement of Cardiac Output: Is Impedance Cardiography the Answer?

Edward R. Franko, Joseph M. Van De Water, Xiang Wang and Xuehang Wang
Vascular surgery, v 25(7), pp 550-558
Sep 1991

Abstract

The ideal measurement of cardiac output (CO) would be a system that is ac curate, noninvasive, reproducible, continuous, and technician-free. Impedence cardiography (ICG) has the promise of meeting these criteria. The authors have developed a unique ICG system that analyzes the analog signals from an impe dence cardiograph by an original software program. This was compared against standard thermodilution (TD) measurement of CO (CO TD ) in patients in the in tensive care and heart surgical units. Simultaneous measurements by CO TD and by CO ICG were performed in 65 patients. A good correlation was noted between COTD and CO ICG over a range of 2.4 to 9.7 L/min (r = 0.73, p < 0.002). If patients with factors known to inter fere with ICG were excluded, an improved correlation was found (r = 0.89, p < .002). CO ICG followed a similar trend as CO TD even in these excluded pa tients. The reproducibility of the CO ICG was good (coefficient of variation = 0.071). The CO ICG was found to be simple and automatic. The results show that it is reproducible and correlates well with CO TD . It also has the added advantages of being continuous and noninvasive. Factors such as arrhythmias, severe COPD, and mitral regurgitation were found to interfere with the CO ICG values. Over all, the versatility of. CO ICG gives the promise of very good noninvasive monitoring in critical care units and preoperative evaluation in the outpatient setting.

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